Is Waze Dying?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ค. 2023
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google maps: turn right
apple maps: turn right
waze: 500 ft ahead there is a car stopped on the shoulder. 50 ft ahead there is a stray cat giving birth on the sidewalk. It is beautiful. 10 ft ahead there is a young boy filled with the
hope of one day finding his father
@waze users let’s crowdsource the young boy’s father plz 😅
Correction* Apple: Turn right at the light.
Apple is the best for directions for me. More detailed and accurate instructions.
google maps: turn right in 100m
apple maps: take the first right after the lights
so much better...
@@JoshuaChang His father is Johnny Sins
You missed the biggest advantage of Waze. Thousands of dedicated volunteer map editors who live in the community they edit. The map is far more accurate plus road closures are posted and removed faster than Google (even though Google leaches the data with some lag). Recently in Northern Virginia the I-66 express lanes were opened and Waze was using it for routing the day it opened. The other nav apps took weeks to pick up the changes. If you're using an app for commuting in some urban hell hole then Waze is it, hands down.
As an editor. I agree.
Exactly my point. He missed out the most important advantage which is map accuracy. Being in Malaysia, google maps tend to bring you to some random forest and you are stuck out of no where. Waze actually gather data from other wazer and the location is much more accurate. Waze also will divert you to a different route if they found out traffic is building up ahead. Maybe google maps have this feature now but in the beginning, those who get screwed by google maps before won’t be bothered to get screwed the second time by google maps. Apple Maps doesn’t even worth to get mentioned here. They are so US centric that they are unusable outside the US. I think the only other country I would try using Apple Maps would be in China. That’s because I have no choice as google were blocked there.
There's a major highway exit where I live that has been open for a year now that still isn't on Google Maps (and my report was rejected because they "couldn't verify" it), but it was on Waze the day it opened.
100% theres a few places inmy country which led me to dead ends or forbidden signs. Usewaze for 99% of my daily use
I too had to commute the I66 expressway from Alexandria to White Oak. Waze was spot on with all of the route changes DAILY! No other navigation app comes close yet.
Waze for road-trip and Google for navigating to an unknown destination. Also, Waze allows for alerts without a destination making it more useful to leave open even when not navigating.
I didn’t know that! Now that’s useful
Yeah I do Grubhub deliveries and Waze is terrible for that. Since it’s not good at determining the location of individual houses.
Waze also has the best integration with streaming services. A big plus if you don’t have CarPlay/Android Auto.
Which has better lane guidance? I've noticed that Google Maps' lane guidance is sometimes incorrect (and potentially dangerous if you don't know the area) while Waze doesn't show it very much?
agreed
On a Texas interstate a year or so ago, Waze instructed us to exit the main lanes and to follow a circuitous route through a small town, then reconnect with the main highway. At first, we were puzzled, but discovered later there was a major slowdown on the interstate (which we could not see when Waze sent us on the detour) and the alternate route moved us faster than if we had stayed on the highway. Kudos to Waze!
My wife had a similar experience. Waze told her to take a very odd route home, she declined and then got stuck in a massive traffic jam. Since then she never goes against Waze's recommendations. I too had Waze show me a different route one day, it slightly off the beaten path. Since then this has become my primary route. Its slightly longer with slower speed limits, but has way less traffic resulting a nicer, relaxing drive in comparison.
I’ve learned to trust Waze. Every time I went with my gut instead of Waze, I regretted it.
@@kevinjones5560this is what I tell everyone - trust Waze, you can’t navigate with your gut. Also, the more you drive with Waze, the more likely you’ll get your favourite and familiar routes.
I like this about Waze. An improvement would be someway to let you know why they are changing the route from a obvious one.
I’m not sure why, but in my city, Apple maps said to reroute on a backroad instead of the highway, and waze said to stay on. I trusted Waze and I was stuck in a traffic jam for 25 minutes…
Apparently, Waze also learns your driving habits and style. Meaning Waze would recommend you the road you would normally go through daily, rather than recommend you new roads all the time. Heck, even gives ETA based on my previous average driving speed, which is actually different between drivers 😉
This is true. Waze used to route me into a road that is always bumpy as it was the quickest route. But after a few drives, it learned that I avoid that stretch of road and it routes me to the road that I take most of the time.
I wish mine did this, theres this road to my house that is shorter in distance but takes longer and isn't good at night due to all it's curves, it still reccomends it to me and i wish there was a way for it to stop
Yes, Waze learns after quite short time my preferred route, but will still re-rout me if it had a good reason.
I love how accurate the ETA is. It usually works it out within a minute or two of the actual arrival time!
This part of the feature mitigates the inability to set the lower speed limits I'm supposed to follow as a new driver in France ! I have my ETA roughly accurate...
Unfortunately where I am in Northern Ireland Waze used to be fantastic. When the user base dropped off here and the user reporting became less frequent it just made more sense to go back to Google which has much more up to date traffic data and road closures. Shame, I loved using Waze.
Wait so google isnt using the same dataset? Seems stupid since they bought them
@@008kevin Google is weird like that
@@008kevin Google uses Waze data on Google Maps, but not the other way around. I mean you can understand the intention.
You wouldn’t love Waze now, so no loss at all there!
@@ravitejaknts for whatever reason, that doesn't apply to where I am in Canada. I need to have both apps open (Waze for police and road hazards, and Google Maps for navigation and traffic)
My biggest reason for using Waze is the pothole warnings, speed limit exceeded warning, speed limit display and current speed display.
Currently (in South Africa at least) these features aren’t available in Google Maps or Apple Maps.
As a South African I second that.
For me, only problem with Waze is the stop planner, you can only add 1 stop and a final destination, whilst google maps can plan a route with multiple stops which can be shared with your friends. This is especially relevant for my group because we go on long drives with multiple stops in which waze is just not a viable option. Everything else - amazing.
I think the biggest difference with maps is the navigation system itself. You can assimilate this with ants. When an ant moves forward, it leaves behind a trail of pheromones, which are detected by other ants. Over time, the passage that is the most marked will be the one that is the most used. Waze uses this system by placing a minus sign on the map when braking, and a plus sign when accelerating. This system gives you instant access to all traffic data (including traffic alerts), so you can choose the most optimized route. It's very effective in towns and cities, where roads and paths cross a lot, and I find that other gps systems are much less effective..
this is.. actually a great comparison
You're really smart bro
I don't react that often on YT but this is a really good explanation! You should be a teacher :)
Hey bud, just offering a suggestion. Assimilate is usually used within the context of absorbing or taking something into something else, whether it's an individual ("he will assimilate new concepts in order to stay ahead of his peers") or a group ("the smaller tribe was assimilated by a larger tribe as resources dwindled").
The words or phrases you're looking for are probably:
- "You can use ants as an analogy."
- "This approximates the way ants behave."
- "The concept is similar to how ant colonies function."
I would use the first option as it more closely matches the sentence structure you originally chose.
Besides that, gave your comment a like as it is something that the original video did not cover and is something that should be surfaced.
Good thinking!
I switched vrom Google and apple maps over to waze, it's overall a better navigation app. Routes are good, no weird detours or longer distance at most instances. Wonder why Google cannot make Google maps aa good as waze since they own waze too.
I just hope Google won't ruin Waze. It's my to go navigation and in my country it's actually used so much that while waiting at traffic lights I easily get a report about an accident behind the intersection that happened a minute earlier.
It's already running it, sorry about it and eventually 2 things will happen, or it will merge with maps or worst it will happen the same that happened to skype when was bought by Microsoft, they will let it die eventually.
Oh no, they're shutting it down. They've been going around shutting down their duplicate apps recently. (Fit for Fitbit, Duo for Meet, Play Music for TH-cam Music, Street View for Maps, etc.)
Ugh I hate that google bought Waze. It’s one of my favorite apps because it’s so up to date. Why do google have to ruin everything they buy?
@@sagas070707 google can't merge it with google maps, either they will continue supporting it or just shut it down, but not merge it with google maps, and let me tell you why. In Germany and many european countries, its illegal to have anything that has to do with radars and since google maps is an official map, they are not allowed to show the speed limit that you need to drive or radars on the road, this story doesn't apply to waze because the map is updated by the community and not by google and thats why its kinda allowed and the state can't do anything about it, so this is why the task would be impossible to merge it to google maps.
@@dumitrutoderici5537 that sounds retarded asf. EU looks making it inconvenient to travel and navigate around for its own citizens. Personally I like having speed limits on google maps its a good feature to have.
I'm from the UK and have used Waze as my only navigation for many, many years. It has saved me countless speeding tickets and I have contributed to map changes and inaccuracies in my local area, which was extremely easy to do and I was contacted by a map editor for further details. I have no reason to use any other navigation app.
do you live really rurally? i mostly use public transport or walk, so there’s no point having an extra app just for driving
@@sublivion5024That reminds me, I must go comment on a video about a TFL app I'll never need or use, because I don't use public transport or live in London...
@@HighHoeKermit do you understand the word “mostly”
@@HighHoeKermit and most people live in cities, so your experience is more unique compared to mine (people living in rural areas and badly connected suburbs that need to drive to most places)
Try not speeding you bellend
I think that Google would be well advised to keep the two product separate, while still "poaching" features like learning the driver's preferred route and typical speeds, and sharing map corrections and incident reports. Waze should stay "gamified", and social-oriented, while Maps should be more "straight-laced". Essentially, who rather different interfaces to the same information base and routing engine.
What I love about Waze is the routes and options of routes compared to Google and Apple which give you more of a direct route whereas Waze will give you the fastest route using side/back streets and traffic data
I actually hate this about waze. Maybe in the US it works well but in European cities where people like to walk having every backroad clogged up with traffic is very unpleasant and dangerous for people who want to walk and cycle.
@@Lukelbroif there is a road cars are allowed on it whether there are a lot or a little.
Apple Maps also routes me through backroads. It's just as aggressive in route planning as Waze for me.
@@josephjoestar515 apple maps took me to the entirely wrong destination several times (address was correct).
This can be great on the US but in some latin american cities this can be very dangerous. I've had Waze send me through some very sketchy neighbourhoods at night and it's definitely something I dislike. However if I need to get somewhere ASAP at all costs I choose Waze over maps anyday.
Every so often I try to compare all 3 and so far Waze is better for getting around traffic issues, and well as notifying me of things I may encounter on the road. Google Maps is suppose to get data from Waze but in my experience is not always the case, at least not as fast.
So you must also like all that data warning you every 500ft that you should watch out for a pink Kirby or piece of fuckkng pizza in the road and showing you an ad over the screen too? Cool.
@@zombievac You don’t have to use it, and if you do, you can turn any of those alerts off, but for that just use what you like. I personally prefer to avoid traffic above all else.
@@Aaaaabbbbbbcccccccddddd but if it’s all spam road hazards (ads, bots) and full screen ads every time you stop (which is the only time you should be looking at it anyway), what’s the point of using it at all at this point?
One thing I like about Google is the satellite view. Very useful if you're driving a large vehicle and need to determine whether there's room for you in a particular parking lot or not. But Waze's obstacle and speed trap warnings are much better in my experience.
Not sure if this is still the case, but my Apple Car Play and Android Auto never let me report anything on Google Maps or Apple Maps. Waze, however, does allow me to report stuff through my radio's head unit.
Waze is my primary app. I’ve been using it since 2010. Although in my country Flitsmeister is the top app. As more people now report in FM, I now use an automation script to launch FM in the background and launch Waze as my primary navigation. This way I never miss a speed trap, pot hole, etc on my journey. As I use CarPlay, I have never noticed the zero speed advertisements.
I love the congestion and parking planning in the app the most. Over the years Waze has saved me literally weeks! One extreme example: Waze helped me avoid a 4 hour standstill traffic jam and got me home in 1.5 hours. I hope the app stays for another 10 years! 🤞
For anyone who don’t want to waste their time on clickbait:
No. Waze isn’t dying. He never mentions Waze dying or anything like said in the title.
Until Waze get merged with Google Maps if that was the case!
Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
Ummm… 5:20 ???
Near me there is a road that had a temporary speed limit reduction from 40 to 20, which lasted a year. This was removed 18 months ago. In Waze the speed limit went down to 20 and back up to 40, pretty much as it happened. In Google maps it took 3 months for the limit to go down to 20, and 18 months later it is still at 20.
Same thing here. A bunch of roads had their speed limit upped from 60 to 70. Google Maps took about a year for it to update, Waze updated it in less than a week.
The algorithms that decide the best directions to your destination for Waze vs GoogleMaps are very different. You won’t notice it so much in small suburban and rural communities, but those differences are exacerbated when you are in a major metropolis or your destination is a major metropolis. Despite the common ownership, those algorithms have remained separate. I live in NYC and the routes each app calculates for in-city destinations can be materially different even if you make all of your driving preferences identical. Typically, but not always, GoogleMaps gives you a more consistently faster route than Waze for intra-city driving. GoogleMaps also tends to stick to major roads whereas Waze can sometimes take you on a side street adventure. Now for inter-city driving, Waze is hands down the better algorithm. GoogleMaps is lazy for routes between cities and sticks with the same route unless the traffic causes a very material difference in time to destination. Whereas Waze is more likely to anticipate traffic and will risk a more creative route that is often times better.
One more thing. GoogleMaps assumes that you will be driving at the speed limit (unless there is traffic obviously) when calculating its ETA. Waze assumes you will drive 10-15% faster than the speed limit. Don’t believe me? Test it out yourself. Happy driving.
Waze rerouting Atlanta traffic has saved me more times on the way to work than I can count, even if I leave my house an hour early to get to work 30 minutes early, there's a crash or something 5 miles ahead that's slowed down traffic and it offers a re-route that gets me to work on time, and knowing that theres a crash up ahead.
I have the opposite experience. I find that waze knows when you can't really drive the speed limit on a road (because it's narrow or whatever), and it adjusts for that. I've been consistently impressed with its ETAs.
Perhaps on your roads, people do just ignore the speed limit? That would fit with waze matching what people actually do, not just copying the number from a sign.
I agree with everything else but Google maps has used the speed of vehicles driven on a road past almost forever.
i assume that the quite a lot of the people using waze are speeding
I joined Waze 13 years ago and I have 98,303 pts. I actually was a map contributor for my local city back in the beginning.
At least in Brazil, you’re a “weirdo” if you don’t use it, mainly due to speed radar warning. Google Maps is used only to look for places, and Apple Maps is a no go.
*cough cough* a shitty government that sets some of the worst taxes and speed limits anywhere
Yes, Apple Maps seems to be more of an USA app, certainly not good for the UK either
That’s a good social sigma
@@amcv5407 In Turkey people use Google and Apple Maps interchangably
My biggest pet peeve with Waze right now is this: Back in the day, when I reported a significant slow down or stand still in traffic, it would automatically reroute me. Now, it just gives me the points and thanks me for helping other people who will be rerouted, while I stay there in the stand still traffic. I would like it to go back to rerouting me, I am not interested in helping others... I don't want to be stuck in traffic...
The rerouting got worse right? But its still better than Google Maps
In waze the navigation is updated more frequently to avoid traffic, in google maps it seems to calculate it at the beginning but not updated it after during the trip. It will also choose a direction with less traffic even if it has a bit more mileages. And of course the radars indication is a huge plus.
Great video explaining Waze functionalities!
Although I always use Waze, the frequent innacuracies in planning the route in a city I am very familiar with has lead me to think this is very intentional on Google’s part. Either by not allowing Waze to improve or by actively sabotaging it.
I would also like to add that for me the key way of avoiding any issues with the route (on Waze or any other app) is do some planning ahead of time. Look at where point B is on the map, choose for yourself what the fastest route is, check what the route you are presented with is and then judge by yourself based on actual traffic that you can see whether it makes sense to take those suggested shortcuts or not. I have been in situations where I got a better ETA by not taking those shortcuts and judging things on the spot. Of course this does not apply in unfamiliar territory, but for regular commuters that could help.
Things I like: all the things you mention in the video + the UX + the fact that even when you disconnect your phone from your car, it remembers the destination and will resume it. Even if you do lose internet coverage, the app doesn’t freeze, it just keeps going with the available information it had at the beginning of your journey. Also the community is super helpful in updating the restrictions and new roads!
There are 4 things I do not like about it:
1. The inaccuracies which I mentioned previously;
2. The ability to have routes downloaded offline.
In places where signal is scarce, I usually download maps on google and use that because Waze cannot even plot a course if it’s not connected to the internet. As I mentioned earlier, it doesn’t drop if you get in a more remote area than when you started, but once there, good luck looking up a new destination.
3. I also don’t like the fact that when you select a certain route, Waze can decide for itself to switch to a different one, which is very infuriating especially because you might not notice. One way of mitigating that is to add a stop to force it to go where you want.
4. Although also applicable to other apps, I would still like to mention that it doesn’t know how to do a U-turn in a street if this is permitted by traffic laws and instead will take you streets away just so you can land in the exact spot where you started from if you had just turned the car around.
All in all, I’m still using Waze 99% of the time. It’s just better for driving.
Waze is a staple in the Philippines, especially in Metro Manila where gridlock is as normal as breathing, its essential for any motorist and is a must if you are a ride share or delivery rider. The social media savvy country combined with lots of time due to daily gridlock make it really good for finding directions, although there are certain areas where instinct is still better.
Google should start pulling traffic reports from the Waze servers and simply add them to the Google Maps in real time. In that case, both platforms users would benefit and have real time information when needed :)
exactly. pull the police info into google maps in real time
@@chewylandliveI don't know how long it's been a thing but my Google maps does it already. It warns me of speed traps ahead and things like turn at the next light.
@@jackrock1974 yea it does that but, Waze has it happening more frequently, and quicker
@@jackrock1974 apple maps does the same thing, however they are different systems and waze engagement is way higher and has more options
As far as I know, Waze data is already used in Google Maps.
It's very simple how the two apps live in harmony together (and why Google will keep it that way). Waze is the navigation to get you there (or at least, to the parking bay). Whereas Google Maps is to find the precise location of your destination (you'd might use Street View to get an idea of what you're looking for)
I use Apple, but need two enhancements: integrate Music into the app (like Waze does), and actually pinpoint where the "speed check reported ahead" is on the map! Both would be great; roadtrips especially.
Very well thought out and explained.
I feel like you checked all the boxes with this. Great job!
Controversial but honestly I kinda hope Waze merges with Google Maps. Would encourage other map apps, like Apple Maps, to adopt more waze-like features, because Waze alone is only good for directions and road notifications. Also, Apple and Google need to do more advertising for these features so people know they exist. My parents had no clue Apple had crowd-sourced reporting. Because why would they? They were never told, and most people don't stay up to date with release and patch notes for their devices and software.
I would love if Google Maps would have a "Waze-interface" switch of some sort, I don't drive that much, but when I do I need Waze, other than that, GMaps for everyday commute. I shouldn't need multiple apps, but they're so good in their respective areas.
Please God, NO. Leave Waze as-is. It's great, GMaps is good for precise addresses, but for highway/freeway driving Waze is MUCH better
me too honestly, I still use google maps for searching up addressing and if in a city seeing if the place i'm going to has parking or not (rather use satalite then waze lol). If they integrated the searching/business side of google maps it would be much better
Waze got bought by alphapet (google) in 2013
I agree. If Google was smart, they would take the best parts of Waze and implement it into Google Maps. Some people say Google Maps already uses Waze's data, but that's definitely not true in most countries. Maybe in the USA. The Google Maps app is much more smoother than Waze, but there's zero customization options, limited reporting data, and well.. it's boring lol. If they including better reporting features and data from Waze, added more fun voices and characters, and some of the minor features without over-bloating the app, that'd be ideal.
Waze was amazing during our roadtrip however some countries here in Europe does not have alot of roads mapped so it was extremely hard to use the App in for example Hungary, Croatia and Italy. But Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland was amazing with tons of reports for upcoming dangers and etcetera.
“Speed camera reported ahead” best Waze feature hands down.
I love Waze so much especially for the alerts, and the way the app functions in general. I have been starting to use Apple Maps more though because I don’t have to look at my phone to double check where I am going as much. Apple Maps shows stop lights and (most of the time) stop signs. It also will say “go past this light and then turn right” compared to Waze saying “turn right in a 1000 feet”.
I definitally like the light feature on apple maps and it's so easy to integrate to waze too because they already have the lights mapped on there, hope they update it one day
They need to update the UI, it feels very outdated. I think there is a middle-ground between friendly, fun, but appealing and fresh.
Yeah it’s why I don’t use it. It looks too kiddie. I definitely needs an overhaul.
I would love a merge of google maps and waze if done correctly.
One big difference they have, at least on my region, is roads law, sometimes google maps takes my on a road which would be a wrong way, potentially getting my a ticket or worse, a car crash, and waze have this correc ted because of the community and profile learning.
Most important features for me that Waze has but other maps app don’t is GPS real time speed (great to quickly check if you’re over speeding), and police/speed radars presence.
It also is more informative about traffic jams and how long you will be stuck.
So basically to avoid speeding tickets Waze is unmatched.
love your videos man, so clean and well produced. you def on the come up 🙌🏻
As you said, I am one of the people who tends to use both Google maps and waze. Simply because I use both public transport and a personal vehicle.
Waze is a great app for driving with all the traffic information and the reports of things around me, but when it comes to public transport, (when I'm navigating inside my city) I have no other options than Google maps, and even then, it lacks in features, and I have to use Moovit as well...
I need to get directions in google maps, i.e what lines should I take and where should I switch, and than I check the times of the line in the moovit app, as well as pay in the moovit app.
I wish this all experience was more cohesive.
Google tends to not be exact with the times of busses, and moovit is not good at suggesting routes😢
Other than Gmaps only transit apps like Moovit, Citymapper, TripChecker, Momego, etc should be used for transit. Waze will never have programming for that outside of locating stations
When I was studying at UK, Google map is the best navi app for me. But back in my home country of Malaysia, everyone I know including myself are using Waze. I have tried to continue using google map when I first returned, but quickly I changed back to Waze. For Malaysia, Waze is just a lot more accurate. It knows Malaysian roads and tolls and highways. It is just perfect. And for a developing country like Malaysia, everyone drives. I feel like Waze is just made for driving users. While for google, it is damn accurate when it comes to public transportation and walking. Which isn’t that popular in Malaysia.
its funny that everyone in Malaysia is using Waze - an app which was developed in Israel - a country that Malaysia hates 🤣
well, i guess sometimes ignorance is a bliss
Back in the day waze used to change routes based on traffic/accidents that happened and suggested changes mid drive. It was amazing! Nowadays it never happens but it's still the best navigation app. The fact that people can post pictures of what happened so you can decide to turn around or not if your stucked is crazy good. Hope google invest more in it, the community makes it the best.
not sure if something is wrong with your app, but for me i get a lot of times changes in mid drive, if it senses traffic ahead then will change the route or at least ask me if i want to, maybe the option is blocked in your country?
Oh, it definitely still happens... Waze tried to reroute me off the highway a few months ago to a random country road. I decided to stay on the highway anyway and deeply regretted it.... it took 45 minutes to reach the next exit as i sat there in nearly standstill traffic that was bottlenecked from a multi-car traffic accident on both sides.
Been using Waze for about 10 years, love the nav UI which is why I use it most often.
As soon as Google bought Waze, they started stealing all the best ideas for Maps. For example, the banner to help you pick the right lane at a junction. There are still so many great features that only Waze has. I'd be very disappointed if Google killed Waze without providing these features in Maps.
Just about to say that as in case not everyone are going to use Maps.
They didn't steal the ideas, they bought them for a billion dollars.
the only flaws I know of while using Waze is that 1. Fuel prices are not updated regularly, drove past a gas station thinking I found a good price but it just hadnt been updated in 28 days, where I live there are other websites that track fuel prices daily that it could pull from but it doesn't 2. It is very stubborn about redirecting you and will often try and take you on a weird route to get back on the road it initially directed you to instead of just rerouting.
So true! Sometimes it redirecting you to a different road just to avoid a little bit of traffic. To me no need to reroute us to beat the traffic only few minutes
I like the traffic avoidance a lot, also waze doesn't care about keeping you on the bigger roads like most other navigation apps. It learns my preferred roads(for example when I go to work I mostly use a route that takes 3mins longer than the fastest) and waze detects that and uses that route for future directions. Lastly it learns my average speed on different roads, my eta almost always is spot on.
Man I absolutely love waze ! I feel like for me all three serve a purpose , when I’m up in the mountains and I have no service are use downloaded maps on Google Maps if I’m riding my bike or taking transit I use Apple Maps , and for strictly driving point to point I use Waze ! But I do feel like it’s time for ways to have a major update because the display is getting boring
Wow. My friend has used Waze for a few years and I think this video convinced me. I live near a major highway and a university so there are always road closures and a lot of traffic. This might really help my navigation for where I live
I love Waze and hope it sticks around. My biggest issue is the stop ads which should go away, but there have been several times when I go for the screen when it is still there or just pops up and end up clicking it which instantly changes my route to there. Something I would neve do, and makes it really dangerous as I am on the road, but now have to figure out where I am going and find and select the correct destination.
For driving gmaps and imaps both have their extra bonus features
But Waze is by FAR the most useful of them all (plus my voice assistant's voice is hand unit from fnaf)
I loved Waze, but Apple Maps improved significantly, and I adopted it. Like you said, Waze is just a little clunky on the phone and even more clunky in CarPlay. However, I will admit that I will open Waze when I'm in an urban setting at rush hour. Waze's alternate routes are often smarter than the Apple and Google map apps.
Not in New York it ain’t. Apple Maps tried to get me to make a left turn in Manhattan. If you know how traffic works in NYC, then you would understand why that’s a problem.
@@robster7787 I've had similar experiences literally with Apple. Google, and Waze. In Atlanta, getting around traffic jams on side roads is tricky. All have landed me at uncontrolled intersections to make a left turn in impossible traffic congestion. Very frustrating.
Apple Maps is horrible. Guides me to the wrong address across freeways or the wrong building, even though they’re across from each other.
@@mikerisner "Turn right"
...but there’s no turn to the right
Waze would've been awesome if they offered an Ad-free version and the ability to have the arrow centered while in landscape mode.
I keep Waze running in the background with Apple Maps for alerts. I've turned off vehicle stopped on shoulder alerts though 💀
I love the toggle option for "avoid hard turns". This prevents me from making a left turn on a major street waiting for 10 minutes and potentially gettting in an accident.
Like Instagram to Meta, Waze has a purpose to most of the users in the road. It’s funny when you say Google Maps or Apple Maps was used for driving. For me at least, it’s used as dictionary for everything about the world like place to eat, public transport and planning the route, which works well when I’m a passenger rather than the driver. However, when you are on the road, you just need some essential things like how long, how fast, any road intrusion ahead and any alternatives ahead which Waze delivers very well. Also, Google Maps as directions does get too clunky for less powered phones, and Apple Maps might not be too updated in countries that don’t use Apple products all the time.
Waze has “planned drive” - being able to check what time I should leave ahead of time is literally the only thing that locks me into Waze. No other features matter.
Google maps has that actually
Apple Maps also has that
My 70s DJ navigation voice makes my drive to work feel like I'm in the disco lol
Waze’s navigation commands are the best. Tells you to stay on which lane, and that information is consistent with markings on the road surface. Google map just says turn right. B.S. Camera warnings are also helpful in Waze.
In Israel, it's used almost exclusively by drivers, Waze links are included on event invitations or navigation instructions - even to governmental institutions as well as private businesses. It's even used in day to day conversations as in "put on Waze" or "what does Waze say?"
Waze was an Israeli startup, this doesn't surprise me
I only use waze when i need to break some laws 😂
It’s the most complete when it comes to car navigation! Speed limits, community stuff, and it has ton of info, you always find what you’re looking for!
(i just wish it wasn’t so glitchy with CarPlay)
In Brazil, Waze is the best app for a few reasons: new roads get added quickly; it shows all speed traps on your route; the community is always on top of hidden speed traps; it allows you to add your plate numbers so that the app can remind you to not drive on days where your plate is banned (in São Paulo, due to the massive amount of vehicles and people, certain license plates cannot drive on certain days. It’s based on the last digit of the license plate); it allows you to add your toll pass and, of course, it has all the other alerts that help you on your way to wherever you’re going.
I loved waze and always pushed it for friends and family. However i've been burned so many times by it freezing/ crashing causing me to miss turns or being unable to calculate an especially long route. The former occurred with CarPlay so there could be integration issues. It definitely makes sense with the revelation that google hampers their development/ improvement. I'm not sure why though, they still own it and should want people to use it. After all, as you mentioned, many people use both Waze and either google or apple maps so it's not detracting much from google maps and can only give google another strong weapon to pull iphone users from apple maps. They need to fix the bugs and keep working on improving what makes it special
Yes especially in car play it just freezes
in carplay when looking at routes the screen would freeze and be stuck unless you restarted the drive, (as a backseat passenger without access to the carplay screen it was annoying), recently though I noticed it won't even let me change routes and say I need to do it on the screen so maybe they couldn't fix it. another issue I have is it not connecting to gps which I'm not quite sure if it was waze or my actual phones fault for that
For looking around town, planning possible routes I’ll use google maps. For actual driving and navigating I only use Waze without turn by turn or alerts. Waze is generally faster and more accurate for me, reporting is useful and I’ve been a map editor in several regions and countries for the last ten years and I appreciate being able to flag a problem and be able to quickly solve it. In fairness, I’m a fan on honor systems like Waze, Wikipedia etc. and tend to give my focus to them as much as possible. It would have to either be forced on me or something catastrophic for me to migrate away from Waze.
Waze also has motorcycle and taxi modes, which are meant to account for filtering and being able to use Bus Lanes (in the UK), though I find for motorbikes it's way too optimistic, as not every road is as filterable as it thinks it is.
I think Wayze should be a GUI Overlay over Google Maps. It could be a feature in Google Maps that you enable to bring the gamification and engagement to the platfrom, while contributing to the passive userbase that is more focused on passive navigation in the standard Google Maps view.
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I have been using waze for almost 8+ years and I love the fact that they report speed cams and cops hiding somewhere. Legit question but does google maps or apple maps does that?
Google maps does do it but not as often. Not sure of the system behind it. Possibly using high rated waze data?
you didn't watch the video it seems
@@PACKTdotSPACE Im sure he watched it, the actual point behind his answer is that google doesn't make those features globally. I can't even see the speedometer in google, and I'm not getting ads in Waze, probably USA thing.
One thing I noticed is that Waze is far better at detecting traffic and at road navigation in big cities; but living in Europe, we have a lot of narrow / steep / kinda inaccessible roads, especially in smaller towns or close to the mountains. That’s when I immediately switch to Maps, because I get stuck on bad secondary roads way too often. Maps is also far better when road-tripping, i prefer the overview especially on the desktop version!
As somebody who is a full time rideshare driver, I use google maps over waze for several reasons. 1- I can tell google maps to avoid/allow toll roads through my android auto and it has no problem switching between them whereas turning tolls on and off in waze is much more user involved. 2- Waze has a habit of making simple directions much more complicated; for instance on city streets where going straight and making 1 turn to get somewhere may be just fine, waze will have you turn left off the main street, turn right on a side street, turn left on another side street, make another right, then another left, then right, then left back on to a main road. 3- I can see upcoming traffic conditions on google maps, I can look at my map and see if there are bad traffic spots along the route and get updates about why I'm being sent a certain route and waze doesn't do this. 4- the map is slow to respond, google knows almost immediately when I make a turn, but waze kind of always lags behind which can make following time sensitive directions(like a crowded downtown) much more difficult. 5- google gives you plenty of advance notice when you need to make a turn whereas waze lets you know basically at the last second resulting in many more missed turns, especially when combined with the previous reason.
I am psycho and use two navigation apps at once. Apple Maps because the navigation hasn't just gotten better, it is now better. Waze because the community reporting is second to none. Waze also has more specific reporting like hidden police, potholes, or fog. The navigation on Waze has gotten awful though constantly getting me stuck in places when Apple Maps doesn't.
I do the same, I put google maps muted in the background mostly to help my timeline form better although not sure it works, never thought of using apple/google maps tho and leaving waze on for alerts
@@KeyonWasTaken My Google Maps still update the timeline without me ever opening it. It tracks you in the background.
I just don't like how it's encouraging ppl to use their phones while driving
You tap twice lmao.. people do much more dangerous shit on the road without even noticing, and there is a voice control. You can tell waze that you spotted a police car and it will automatically add it.
As a Sky engineer I do a lot of travelling to peoples houses. My main navigation app is Waze. It is the best one but it is a little hungry on that initial data connection and I can sometimes be in an area where Google maps can make a connection and route me but Waze would time out. I also use Apple Maps for one reason. Named houses. If you type in a named house Waze and Google maps don’t find them but Apple Maps will find it straight away and literally be pin point accurate as well. None of them are perfect, they all have their use cases.
It's also the only app that has "passive" driving features, like still showing useful info like speed limits when when not on a specific selected route.
waze team
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I believe Waze is owned by Google. As such, would be curious if user inputs by Waze users are seen by Google Maps users and vice versa 🧐
waze is also the better option on iphones as it displays your gps speed on the map and reminds you of the speed limit on the road youre driving on. It's been useful multiple times since some of my cars havent had a working speedo XD
The only reason I ever used Waze was for the built in speedometer. I drive a Mazda 6 and the car’s speedometer is pretty accurate and it matches the app. So whenever I’m driving a different car I use Waze to see how accurate the speedometer is. I found out that my dad’s car’s speedometer is over exaggerated by 10 km/h this way. I heard that this feature is to be implemented in Google maps soon which excites me.
I love using it on trips, although it’s really buggy when using CarPlay where it’s very obvious the developers don’t use it themselves otherwise they’d spot the very obvious bugs, and I wish it had outlines of buildings like on Apple Maps so I can see which house I’m arriving at rather than looking for the address number on the house
Google maps runs the risk of being too big to run and maintain (if not already) if it does take on all the Waze features - as it's already supporting streetview, reviews, public transport, routing and its own navigation. It could become the new Facebook of the digital map world, trying to be a jack of all trades.
Google have had 10 years to merge the apps but haven't. I can see a future for Waze, especially with a loyal community behind it.
I love Waze, I have it opened all the time on my CarPlay because I love it’s cartoony maps look. It also has live alerts which are amazing for motorway / highway travel.
Definitely gonna try it out now
”Royalty Wazer” cracked me up. Even some rice grains flew across the room 😂😂
My years long wish for Waze has been to allow more than one waypoint between my present location and final destination.if they allowed say 10 waypoints I could enter every stop I need to make than it could include a route planner to offer options based on fastest, shortest, and most most efficient by taking advantage of time of day, known traffic patterns, construction and accidents. I’ve understood why they’ve never done this because both the technology and math required is pretty basic stuff,
The problem with Waze is that it's really not that well known Globally
I've never heard of it in my entire life tbh, and this is the first time i see/heard of it when i stumbled upon your video randomly
Waze is just amazing. Also I love the way the Waze icon looks on the thumbnail lol.
I don't drive, but i really liked your video 😊 great montage, was pleasant to watch ❤
I’m from NY and no longer using Warez for years.
It has way too much information on the map which I don’t needed. Moreover, the ETA was not based on live traffic which was the major reason why I decided to move to Apple map.
I love the Waze Blockbuster audio theme :D puts a smile on my face every drive
Apple maps - Default navigation
Google maps - Backup for apple maps
Waze - On whenever not navigating to see alerts and make alerts
I love your animations. Can you make it dark mode so that viewing in the night will be more comfortable. You earned a sub
Waze map looks so good, I use it just cruising backroads to see curves coming up
I got 3 bus lane tickets last year because google maps drove me to a place with a bunch of bus lane for over 15 blocks that the only way to avoid them is to not enter the avenue on 168 street or just be extremely knowledgable about the area. When I use Waze, it doesn't let me enter that street in the first place and if I do go in that street, it continuously gives where to drive to avoid the cameras. On top of that, it shows how fast you're going, cops, speed traps, red light camera, hazard reports and so much more. I love Waze.
Used to have Waze as my default just purely due to the crowdsourced reports and how active it was! Recently I’ve reverted to Apple Maps which I have found has vastly improved. Although not on the level of Waze with level of engagement I have found its detection of traffic and routing is great. Just my 2¢ 😊
Waze is good and here is a reason why.
1: They can detect speed cameras and detect cops.
G maps:
1: Provide walking and transit
Waze for the win!
My issue with Waze is that it stays on after you’ve reached your destination so you need to remember to manually shutdown the app. Back to using Apple Maps now as it works with the HUD on my BMW and I was pleasantly surprised how much it has improved.
Waze i use exclusively for car navigation and while driving.
Google maps is for getting phone numbers, addresses and hours for businesses. Plus marking and saving of POI flags, and walking navigation, i use Google maps.
I just wish one of these navigation apps would implement "choose which side of the street your destination is on."
Waze can show which lane of the road should we take or drive. Specially we are no use to huge city. really useful.
Do the points add up if you have the app open via CarPlay/Android auto?
My biggest issue with waze is the music app,, they did not give you any information about the music when navigating.. you need to tap the music icon to show it.. and then the navigation itself is greyed out when you do this.. which is very annoying when driving..
While in gMaps the music information showed on the buttom of the screen..
I need to know!!! Where do you get your t-shirts?! That shirt is cleaaaaan!!!
Hey great video, But i must ask; where is your t-shirt from. It looks like a perfect cut. Thanks Joshua :)